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Blu wrote:I almost gave up on Crash Bandicoot 1 from the N'Sane Trilogy. I'm not too familiar with the games as I played a Crash Demo back in the day, but never sat down and played through them.

Good lord, the bridge levels: Road to Nowhere and The High Road. I was about to give up on Road to Nowhere. It's like this level was designed by a masochist. I read a strategy that you can still exploit a glitch by running on the ropes, but that still was challenging as Crash's hitbox is round, which makes staying on edges challenging as you're more prone to "roll" off.

After about thirty continues and multiples sessions, I beat the Road to Nowhere. The High Road surprisingly took me less tries later on. But I was about to move on and write off this game. I think I have like 6 levels to go until the final boss. Hoping 2 and 3 are a little bit more polished.

opa wrote:Markies- if you try Morrowind again I'd play it on openMW. The pc version is so much better than dealing with xbox load times.

pook99 wrote:Just gave up on an indie game called reknum for the switch, absolutely horrible platformer, easily one of the worst I ever played.

the game looks good, the trailer shows a decent looking, 8-bit game, and its under 5 dollars so I figured it was worth a shot but it didnt take long before the host of problems began cropping up:

1. cheap deaths everywhere, this is one of those games that are hard for all the wrong reasons. Like your standing in a spot and all of a sudden something falls from the top of the screen instantly killing you, you had no way of knowing it was there, next time you know it is there and you just repeat the process over and over again. This is compounded in a level that is all dark and you have only a small glowing sphere around you with pitfalls and instant death traps everywhere, all completely impossible to see.

2. No checkpoints: the levels are fairly long and there are no checkpoints, which means when you die by something you could not see, it is back to the beginning and you are forced to slog through the whole ordeal again. This is made worse by the fact that when you are not getting instantly killed by something you couldnt see, the game is mind numbingly easy and bland. Which means you walk through boring, easy sections, die by something you cant see, then next time pass that part, and repeat until its over

3. Fake level exits: this is whole new thing I have never seen before. I just beat the first world boss and I then enter into a large sewer level. I make my way to the end and there is a door with a large arrow over it. I enter the door and I am taking back to the last worlds boss, that I now have to fight and defeat again. There is literally no way to know that the door is a trick and I can't imagine how many more times this happens through this atrocious game

This is easily one of the worst games I have ever played in my life, it is actually offensive to me that it exists, and if I ever meet the developers of the game at a random indie games expo I am pretty sure I will choke them out to avenge the hour or 2 of my life I lost playing this atrocious game.

If you love 8-bit retro styled games and own a switch, the trailer for this game will tempt you, no matter how cheap it gets avoid at all costs, it is absolutely terrible and may be the worst game in existence.

BoneSnapDeez wrote:

pook99 wrote:Just gave up on an indie game called reknum for the switch, absolutely horrible platformer, easily one of the worst I ever played.

the game looks good, the trailer shows a decent looking, 8-bit game, and its under 5 dollars so I figured it was worth a shot but it didnt take long before the host of problems began cropping up:

1. cheap deaths everywhere, this is one of those games that are hard for all the wrong reasons. Like your standing in a spot and all of a sudden something falls from the top of the screen instantly killing you, you had no way of knowing it was there, next time you know it is there and you just repeat the process over and over again. This is compounded in a level that is all dark and you have only a small glowing sphere around you with pitfalls and instant death traps everywhere, all completely impossible to see.

2. No checkpoints: the levels are fairly long and there are no checkpoints, which means when you die by something you could not see, it is back to the beginning and you are forced to slog through the whole ordeal again. This is made worse by the fact that when you are not getting instantly killed by something you couldnt see, the game is mind numbingly easy and bland. Which means you walk through boring, easy sections, die by something you cant see, then next time pass that part, and repeat until its over

3. Fake level exits: this is whole new thing I have never seen before. I just beat the first world boss and I then enter into a large sewer level. I make my way to the end and there is a door with a large arrow over it. I enter the door and I am taking back to the last worlds boss, that I now have to fight and defeat again. There is literally no way to know that the door is a trick and I can't imagine how many more times this happens through this atrocious game

This is easily one of the worst games I have ever played in my life, it is actually offensive to me that it exists, and if I ever meet the developers of the game at a random indie games expo I am pretty sure I will choke them out to avenge the hour or 2 of my life I lost playing this atrocious game.

If you love 8-bit retro styled games and own a switch, the trailer for this game will tempt you, no matter how cheap it gets avoid at all costs, it is absolutely terrible and may be the worst game in existence.

Okay everything you said was accurate. What the hell were they thinking??